- To provide extraordinary educational opportunities to children with learning disabilities, utilizing research-based intervention strategies and a highly tailored, arts-based learning environment, that is college preparatory in scope and sequence.
- To develop a center for educational excellence and professional development to disseminate best practices to educators throughout the region by providing access to the latest research-based curriculum, technology, and training.
The goals of the Academy In Manayunk are to:
- provide a rigorous quality education for a lifetime of learning
- provide intensive remediation and teaching of strategies
- employ all the art forms as central to the educative process and treat the arts as scholarly pursuits
- bring multi-sensory and experiential learning into each classroom
- provide as many mainstream school experiences as possible structured to best facilitate learning
- support and educate parents in regard to school and home issues
- engage in research to facilitate excellent instruction
- incorporate the latest technology into all programs
- keep staff highly challenged, in touch with brain research and its implications for teaching, designing new approaches to stay on the cutting edge of the field
- disseminate through workshops, lectures and seminars the result of its programs to others, including public and private schools that serve students who learn in both traditional and non-traditional ways
- replicate The Lab School model
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